Brown's Advanced Laboratory for Instructional Computing

在过去的25年里，计算经历了两个主要的范式转变：从批处理计算到分时计算，从分时计算到个人计算机和工作站计算。第三个范式转变可能与前两个转变一样重要--三维可视化、可视化编程和多媒体的开发。在这个项目中，布朗大学计划继续在教学和研究方面发挥领导作用，努力使这种最新的范式变得可访问和有用。该项目包括为电子教室配备具有三维图形和多媒体能力的最新一代工作站，开发必要的教育软件以利用这一新一代的能力，这项工作既是布朗过去和现在努力的延续，也是对当前努力的重要延伸。目前在图形、编程环境和程序可视化方面的研究成果将被用作新工具的基础，将研究软件移植到教学环境中。课程将升级，并在必要时进行修订，以便在入门课程中引入先进的概念，并在后面的课程中加强这些概念。

Computing has experienced two major paradigm shifts in the past 25 years: from batch computing to time-shared computing and from time-shared computing to personal computer and workstation computing. A third paradigm shift, probably as significant as the first two--the exploitation of three-dimensional visualization, visual programming, and multimedia--will be next.In this project, Brown University plans to continue to exert leadership in teaching and research by being at the forefront of efforts to make this latest paradigm accessible and useful to all. The project involves equipping the electronic classroom with the latest generation of workstations with three-dimensional graphics and multimedia capabilities, developing the necessary educational software to exploit the capabilities of this new generation, and exporting both the software and the educational materials developed with it to other institutions.The work is both a continuation and a significant extension of the past and current efforts at Brown. The current research efforts in graphics, programming environments, and program visualization will be used as a foundation for the new tools, migrating research software into the instructional environment. The curriculum will be upgraded and, where necessary, revised to introduce advanced concepts in the introductory courses and to reinforce these concepts in the latter courses.